What Processes are Safe to Close?
You get a lot of processes when you press CTRL-ALT-DELETE, bring up the Task Manager, and click the Process tab. It’s impossible to say with any certainty which ones you can safely close. Although attempting to end any of them produces dire warnings of apocalyptic upheaval, such disasters rarely occur. Of course, I wouldn’t close any of them without saving every open document first. One must take precautions. But here’s a simple rule: Don’t close any process without first finding out what it does. One good place to look is ProcessLibrary.com. Just enter the name into the site’s Find field, press ENTER, and see what it says. Actually, the site offers an even easier way to look ProcessQuickLink gives every process in the Task Manager a link to its definition.up a process: ProcessQuickLink. This free program puts an icon next to each process in the task manager. Click any one of these icons, and your browser will open to that process’s description in ProcessLibrary.com. But ProcessQuickLi
